Lawyers at Beasley Allen are pleased to announce that U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan has approved the settlement agreement in the ongoing lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority. T... Read more

Duke Energy Carolinas LLC and environmental officials in North Carolina and Virginia have reached an agreement calling for the cleanup of a February disaster in which 82,000 tons of coal ash... Read more

Early February brought the latest in coal ash disasters when a broken stormwater pipe at Duke Energy’s Dan River Steam Plant released approximately 82,000 tons of coal ash and nearly 27 mill... Read more

The Insurance Journal has reported Bermuda-based insurance company Arch was required to pay $42 million to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for the power company’s claim related to a coa... Read more

U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan has ordered mediation between the Tennessee Valley Authority and Roane County residents who filed suit over the massive coal ash spill in 2008. Judge Varlan ga... Read more

The first phase of the TVA trial in Tennessee concluded on October 12th. The trial involved five cases consolidated for trial and those five cases include approximately 230 Plaintiffs whose... Read more

The two-year anniversary of the coal ash spill and resulting environmental disaster at TVA’s Kingston, Tenn. Power Plant has just passed. In the early morning hours of December 22, 2008, a... Read more

Tennessee state officials have levied $4.5 million in fines against the Tennessee Valley Authority. The State Department of Environment and Conservation imposed the penalties after determini... Read more